TY - JOUR
T1 - On the morphosyntax and pragmatics of -in in Colloquial Jakartan Indonesian
AU - Arka, Wayan
AU - Yannuar, Nurenzia
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This paper presents a novel description and analysis of the suffix -in in colloquial Jakartan Indonesian (CJI), providing the first explicit account of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of this suffix in Indonesian. It demonstrates that -in has its own place in Indonesian grammar, in which certain morphosyntactic functions overlap with its -i/-kan counterparts in Standard Indonesian. Like -i/-kan, -in is a polysemous suffix; its applicative and causative functions are the product of a complex process involving predicate composition of the root and suffix during affixation. This analysis addresses not only clear cases of functional correspondence between the suffixes, but also the deeper morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic constraints responsible for certain intriguing differences between -in and -i/-kan.
AB - This paper presents a novel description and analysis of the suffix -in in colloquial Jakartan Indonesian (CJI), providing the first explicit account of the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface of this suffix in Indonesian. It demonstrates that -in has its own place in Indonesian grammar, in which certain morphosyntactic functions overlap with its -i/-kan counterparts in Standard Indonesian. Like -i/-kan, -in is a polysemous suffix; its applicative and causative functions are the product of a complex process involving predicate composition of the root and suffix during affixation. This analysis addresses not only clear cases of functional correspondence between the suffixes, but also the deeper morphosyntactic, semantic and pragmatic constraints responsible for certain intriguing differences between -in and -i/-kan.
U2 - 10.1080/13639811.2016.1215129
DO - 10.1080/13639811.2016.1215129
M3 - Article
SN - 1363-9811
VL - 44
SP - 342
EP - 364
JO - Indonesia and the Malay World
JF - Indonesia and the Malay World
IS - 130
ER -